One Piece Law Light Novel

I speak to Penguin and Shachi in the most natural way.

- You have nowhere to go. You're not going to go back to your uncle's either, are you?

- No, certainly not ... This is the last thing we would do …

- In this case, you just have to come under my orders, so you can live here.

- As I spoke, their faces began to glow.

- Did you forget that it is my home, here! plague the old man with a snarling tone.

- I do not know.

- By the way, Bepo is already part of my team.

- I'm learning it, here! Better late than never! Tcha tcha tcha!

Shachi and Penguin look at each other and, in the same vein, both nod their heads. Then they turn to us and sayin one voice, again bowing their heads deeply:

- Please let us put our bags here!

At the same time, Wolf sighs deeply, as if to complain that the number of kids living in his househas increased further.

- Listen to me carefully, kids! I have no choice, so I accept that you all sleep at my place for a while! But do not get me wrong! I have no intention of acting as a tutor! No way I will become a member of your family or even a friend! The only relationship that exists between us is "give and take"! You, you need a place to live! Me, I need arms for everyday tasks and to work on my inventions! It's give and take, get it?! As soon as the wounded are back on their feet, you will all go to work in the city! Not only will you help me around the house, but you will also be looking for a real job! Do we agree?!

Nobody objects to anything.

No face darkens.

Only Wolf blushed, as if he had just finished an embarrassing speech.

I think back to the meaning of the word "freedom" that Cora used to pronounce.

Bepo, Penguin, Shachi and I have all tasted an in effable loneliness, a nameless despair that we have overcome to keep us here.

I still don't know what that word "freedom" means. Only I know that Wolf's house is a place where I feel good.

Why, you will ask me?

Because the words of this old man whose principle is "give and take" are not words that crush those for whom they are intended. We can feel that he treats us as equals and that he respects us deeply.

If so, this place is the right one. Perhaps that by dint of living in the cores of these energumenes, I will end up finding this "freedom" which Cora harshed my ears.

I am convinced of it, but it is a conviction that is based on a few things.

Far away, at the end of our funny life together for five, I know that I will come across what I would like to find.

Aah ... The more I think about it the more I tell myself that in fact, this world is not that bad.

Watching these four fellows stir noisily, I feel a grin rising at the corners of my lips, discreetly.